Heba Press: Tangier
The allocation of 180 million centimes by the local authority in Tangier in an item entitled “Expenditure for national holidays and celebrations” as part of the Council’s draft budget for 2025 was accompanied by a large controversy within the population, which expected improvement in a number of areas. services as well as a lack of infrastructure in the city.
Concerning the items in the draft budget, 20 million centimes were increased for last year, bringing the amount to 70 million centimes during the next financial year for the purchase of small decorative materials, and another item for which 10 million cents were allocated for the purchase of artistic masterpieces and “prize” gifts, and another item related to expenses for food, accommodation and entertainment cultural amount: 100 million cents.
Expenditure that some considered incompatible with the memorandum from the Ministry of the Interior, which alerted to the need to rationalize expenditure in order to preserve the financial budget of territorial groups and target the basic needs of citizens.
